NATIONAL SEMINAR ON ADVANCEMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS 19th AND 20th NOVEMBER 2010

About 37 young faculty members from various Departments of different colleges such as Veltech-Chennai, KLN college of engineering, PSY college of engineering, Anna university-madurai, The American college, Ultra college of engineering,Latha Madhavan ,Adhiparasakthi college of Engineering, Manakulavinayagar college of tech-Pondichery, Vickram college of education and Vickram college of engineering participated.
The seminar was inaugurated by our Chairman Er.M.K.S.Sreenivasan, Chairman, Vickram group of institutions. Dr.R.David Chandrakumar, Professer and Head, Welcomed the gathering and Dr.S.Kathirrvelu, Principal, offered felicitations. Prof.M.Palanikumar, Dean and Prof.Nagarajan, A.O, participated.

Resource persons from reputed Institutions gave special lectures on various topics on applied mathematics.

1.Dr.G.Arivarignan, Professor and Head, Department of applied mathematics, Madurai Kamaraj university. His lecture on Stochastic process was full of practical examples and several techniques of solving them. Also several openings for doing research were cited.

2.Dr.K.Kannan, Professor and Dean, School of Humanities and sciences, Sastra university, Thanjavur.  He gave a long list of open problems in mathematics and especially in applied mathematics. He also highlighted that mathematics is widely used in solving problems in other sciences.

3.Dr.R Srikanth, Associate Professer and Dean(AC and RE), School of Humanities and sciences, Sastra university, Thanjavur. He began from the elementary Number Theory and linked with the latest technology developement of image processing. He also suggested for inter departmental research.

4.Dr.A.Sunnykuriakose, Principal, BPC college, Ernakulam, Kerala. He delivered a useful lecture on Fuzzy logic and he combined Fuzzy logic with other topics such as Stochastic process and Decision theory.

5.Dr.V.R.Dare, Professer and Head, Department of mathematics, Madras Christian college, Chennai. An authority in Automata theory, he began with the alphabet and developed in to a grammar and he gave lot of problems. He linked this with Chemistry, Biology and Membrane computing.

More than 15 participants presented research papers .

Special quiz program was conducted for the student participants.

In the validictory function, Ms.M.Selvarani welcomed the gathering , Dr.R.David Chandrakumar Summarized all the programs of two days seminar and the participants also gave the feedback, Ms.K.Regina Mary proposed Vote of Thanks.